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From: lab@qubix.UUCP (Larry Bickford)
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Subject: Re: How about net.sport.basketball??
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Date: Fri, 4-Nov-83 17:12:10 EST
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Suggested abbreviation: net.sport.bkb
I will grant that "bkb" is hardly an obvious abbreviation for
"basketball" (or anything else for that matter), but:
1) it IS an abbreviation where none currently exists
2) it does use the (phonetically) most prominent letters
   in the word it attempts to abbreviate

Other possibilities: net.sport.nba (not limited to the pros)
		     net.sport.hoop (? confusable with hula hoop ?)
		     net.sport.net (ditto for tennis, lacrosse, ...)
Larry Bickford,
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